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...thyroid. Goitres, said Drs. Nahum and Hoff last week, "change the heart in such a way as to make it susceptible to overactivity of the vagus nerve. Some patients are naturally subject to vagus action. Some develop it reflexly from high blood pressure and it is probable that all hyper-thyroids are sensitive to the vagus nerve. In this way, overactivity of this nerve develops, which precipitates auricular fibrillation...
...Sept. 26, 1904 Yakumo Koizumi died, leaving four children, three of whom still live in his house. An invalid for several years before his death, he had been blind in one eye since he was 16, was painfully nearsighted in the other. As his sight failed he developed a hyper-acute sense of smell. It was Lafcadio Hearn's boast that he could smell the difference between a brunette and a blonde...
...facts that must be crammed . . . . Chance to do experimental work that is individually appealing, and to learn self-criticism from thinking it over . . . . The pace is individual, and extra time can be put on individual difficulties . . . No mention of undefined "benefits" from "contacts," or "attitudes of mind," esteemed by hyper-extroverts...
AMID THESE STORMS-Winston S. Churchill-Scribner ($3.50). Though Winston Churchill grew up physically long ago (he is 58), he is still and perennially the bad boy of British politics. Bubbling with super-adolescent energy and enthusiasms, hyper-adolescent ideas, unlike the typical Britisher he cannot refrain from sounding off on any subject that catches his briskly roving eye. Always refreshing (if you like enthusiasm per se), often more humorous than he intends, he apologizes for this collection of outbursts by saying that in an old world one must still amuse oneself like a child. Every Englishman is familiar with...
...invitation of the Harvard Student Council urging a delegation of Yaile undergraduates to spend tow days Yale undergraduates to spend two days under its residential regime firmly indicates the strong bonds of friendship between the undergraduates of the two universities. It is a generous offer which allows the hyper-critical student of another college to probe both the successes and defeats of the other. Mistakes there are bound to be where a revolutionary change has taken the place of a tradition hallowed by two and a half centuries of existence...